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A ruling, order, or other court action made without specifically stating the ruling, order, or action. The effect of the ruling or action is implied by related and subsequent actions, but not specifically stated. subpoena: under penalty A writ compelling testimony, the production of evidence, or some other action, under penalty for failure to ...
The forms of action were the different procedures by which a legal claim could be made during much of the history of the English common law. Depending on the court, a plaintiff would purchase a writ in Chancery (or file a bill) which would set in motion a series of events eventually leading to a trial in one of the medieval common law courts.
Custom (law), a right enjoyed through long use; Easement by prescription, acquisition of private property rights through uncontested use; Prescription (sovereignty transfer), acquisition of sovereignty through uncontested use; Period of prescription, in civil law jurisdictions, the time limit within which a lawsuit must be brought
Law firms are typically organized around partners, who are joint owners and business directors of the legal operation; associates, who are employees of the firm with the prospect of becoming partners; and a variety of staff employees, providing paralegal, clerical, and other support services. An associate may have to wait as long as 11 years ...
The oldest known medical prescription text was found at Ebla, in modern Syria, and dates back to around 2500 BCE. [43] [44] [45] Modern prescriptions are actually extemporaneous prescriptions (from the Latin ex tempore, 'at/from the time'), [46] meaning that the prescription is written on the spot for a specific patient with a specific ailment ...
Legal-project management meets traditional project management particularly in the area of electronic discovery. [5] E-discovery in particular has a set of regularized, repeatable, and measurable practices and has been subject to great cost-control pressure for the past few years, making it a specialty within law amenable to traditional project management.
Common law prescription assumed continuous prescriptive rights from 1189 when the legal regime officially began, all time before which having been designated as time immemorial. [5] The Prescription Act 1832 was written hastily as a response to a criticism by Jeremy Bentham, who proposed the complete elimination of common law. It practically ...
There is a wider public interest in having litigation initiated promptly if it is to be initiated at all. That is conducive to legal certainty. Even if in an individual case prescription may seem to involve hardship, as long as the law of prescription strikes a fair balance overall, it serves the wider interests of fairness, justice and certainty.